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    Black Male
    Black Male
    Black Male
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    Black Male

    By BC Jones II

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    White paper on the problems with victimless crimes including substance abuse and the attempts at resolution since 1957

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBC Jones II
    Release dateJul 17, 2012
    ISBN9781476355009
    Black Male
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    BC Jones II

    Single again after 40 years: 4 chldren and 8 grands 1 great grand; and still happy, though not looking for another wife, I am seeking another girlfriend. With the right kind of womnan there is hope that I can fall in love again; and I hope I never give up on that idea; not looking, just hoping to find the right woman to end my life with. Yet, I am going to have a good time even if alone, because after all, except for my mother, that's how I came into this world alone, and my guess is "that's how I will be going out" alone all by myself.

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      Black Male - BC Jones II

      BLACK MALE

      BLACKMALE

      BC JONESW2ND

      COPYWRIGHT BCJONES2ND 2013

      Published at SMASHWORDS

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      In the summer of 1959 the Mayor of New York proposed my earliest recollection of Drug War. He claimed he would be cleaning up all the crimes that proliferated New York City by waging war. Generally speaking, that’s the first time I heard of the war on drugs. What the Mayor was alluding to, was a war against quality of life ills in New York City; mainly against ageless crimes of which, prostitution, illegal gambling and illegal drugs" to name a few were prevalent in the ghettoes of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and the Upper West Side, known as Harlem. No mention of the Islands were ever alluded to; Long Island or Staten Island were said to have no illegal activities, yet most, alive at the time, know the white enclaves had no criminal activity and anyone who lived in New York City at the time, knows he was sure as hell not talking about where the voting white people lived.

      Then, as much as today, it was a political trick to shift the focus of the electorate away from the problems of poverty to re-focus them upon what was proposed to be done, by the Mayor of the great City of New York.

      With little regard to drugs, prostitution and gambling, nothing has happened in 50 years since that even attempts to solve the problem but lip service. The lock em' up ploy, however, did present the impression that he was able, willing, and that he had the power, if reelected, to deal with those problems, in the course of running the largest city in the world.

      The Mayor of City of New York, then Mayor Wagner, proposed to clean up the problems, just like so many before him. The only problem, it was an election year. 60 years later not much has changed; in fact the problems are worse now than they were in 1959. More than half a century later and not much has changed, but the politicians, talking about what they will do if they are elected.

      Every since then some new politician has suggested the same kind of policy to solve problems that have never been changed with the type of solutions offered in the last half century. Then as now, the same offered cures for our dilemmas, which we ultimately must solve, if we intend to end our problems, continues worldwide.

      In regard to drugs on the streets where I grew up I have seen absolutely no change. The police presence on the street in New York City has done nothing which approximates the end to the victim less crimes of drug addiction. No solution to this particular social problems has ever made its presence known to me. No cures has ever been successfully advanced. No forms of prevention have ever been demonstrated and the problem has found no single solution to date, that has solved, once and for all, the problem incumbent in our culture. The solution to drug addiction as a social problem, has never been effective, here in America. It is the same problem and has always been the same problem, the poor who use drugs and pay the most extreme penalty for their criminal status are the only ones prosecuted for their involvement. Europe has demonstrated legalization does bear fruit as a solution to the problem, and if we, in America but, had the courage to accept that some people are destined to be addicted, and did away with long outlived solutions, we might save someone from some of the problems incumbent in this mostly victimless crime.

      If we tried, we could lessen the load on or legal system by decriminalization for users and prosecution of high volume dealers. And for reason's I will detail later on, we have refused for more than half a century to open our eyes to do something to end the mostly victimless crime part of our prohibition.

      Only the faces have changed, as are the new drugs that have been invented, but that's all that has changed in the last 60+ years. The cops on the beat are new and seem so much younger than they were 50 years ago, but then again, so do the pushers and users. What has remained constant over five decades is the cry for stronger criminal penalties.

      Once upon a time the illegal drug of choice was alcohol, now it has switched to pills, pot ,coke and dope. As society faces the surfacing problem of newer drugs and a host of designer drugs, along with the ills of heroin. Not much has changed since I was a boy. Many choose to believe the simple act of legislation can deter illegal drugs but history has proven, that it doesn’t work. Unfortunately, legislation and law enforcement is a myth perpetrated by smart politicians to create an image where, it is easier to believe the problem of addiction is manageable, than accept that poverty is the problem and drugs are an attempted solution to poverty, and not a problem. The myth, as unfortunate as it is, allows too many of our children to become prime targets for the failed strategies of are archaic drug prohibitions.

      The quality of our children's lives will be determined by what we, as parents, are able to impart with them, and by what they learn outside of the home in the larger arena of life, on their own. However, when we tell them a lie, even if we don’t know we are lying, they learn not to trust us and then they must find out for themselves and, many of them, die and become the walking wounded, because o our misinformation.

      Our children learn at the school of hard cold knocks, and they do it the only way anyone can, experience. And what they learn in the real world, often caries more weight than what they learn from home, and the lessons are often better remembered, be they good or bad lessons.

      Eventually, sooner or later, we must accept the fact that substance abuse/drug addiction is a social problem not criminal, excepting the fact that the crime is the prosecution of the poor. Substance abuse becomes a problem in response to addiction and the means of supporting or maintaining the addiction to illegal drugs.

      If man is ever to solve the enigma of drug addiction, we must first accept certain facts:

      1) Are system of redress is simply not working, and it must be altered to a working solution.

      2) Criminal punishment for non-violent crime does not end addiction; merely it adds a criminal prosecution to a burdensome system of financing everything that goes into propping up the stem of prosecutions and detention, court, jail, probation and forms of penance to the level of the crime.

      3) If everyone convicted of a crime faced mandatory incarceration, it would be necessary to construct 10,000 to 50,000% of new jail space.

      4)

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